Opening Night Live had 80% more viewers than last year

The producer and host Geoff Keighly just announced that the concept keeps growing at a rapid pace.
Text: Jonas Mäki
Published 2025-08-25

The German gaming fair Gamescom has closed for this year, and as tradition dictates, it all kicked off with the Opening Night Live show - produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley (who also does The Game Awards). Now, via Threads, he is relieved to announce that it went well again this year... really well, in fact.

Among other things, he writes that Opening Night Live had "viewership up 80 percent YoY to 72 million views", certainly helped by the fact that we got to see hot titles such as Hollow Knight: Silksong, Resident Evil: Requiem, and Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.

Naturally, we have been monitoring everything here at Gamereactor, and if you would like to catch up on everything that happened, watch interviews, and read about the games we have tested, you can find it all here.

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